Word: gallon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Garfield's Gallon Trip...
...Cloud. For some years the 25 service stations of Sunny Service Oil Co. have undersold national oil companies in Detroit. Last week Col. Walter Corydon Cole of Union League Club of Michigan accused Sunny Service of buying gasoline from U. S. S. R. at 3½? a gallon, "laid down" in Detroit. That is only a fraction more than mere transport charges of gasoline from Texas to Detroit...
...Syracuse, N. Y., who is 33. Bigger and louder than even St. Louis' Victor J. ("Oh, Boy") Miller was Mayor George L. Baker of Portland, Ore. Large, breezy, beetle-browed Mayor Baker lost no time in making himself the personage of the party. He wore a 10-gallon hat, was elected chairman of the delegation, gave out the big interview during the party's two-day stay in Manhattan. Excerpts: "It may seem like taking a ham sandwich to a banquet, but you'll notice that all of us who have wives are taking them along...
...squeezing the taxpayers. Its income tax (three shillings in the pound) is almost as great as Britain's (four shillings sixpence), though its surtax is approximately 50% less. At the same time that Minister Blythe announced his surplus he announced a tax on gasoline of 8 cents a gallon, increased the entertainment tax on talking films to 6 cents a foot. Indirectly he increased the troubles of President Gerardo Machado of Cuba by raising the customs duty on sugar to 2 cents a pound. Irish sugar-beets are providing a good share of the Free State's sweetening...
...bread and circuses, were the prime requisites of happiness for the plebs of ancient Rome. Bread and gasoline are prime popular requisites today. Last week no wise Emperor but two ferocious price wars made bread and gas fantastically cheap in San Francisco-three loaves for 10? and 7? a gallon...